Ubuntu Will Soon Ship On 5% of New PCs 441
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from Phoronix: "Chris Kenyon, the VP of sales and business development for Canonical, just spoke this afternoon at the Ubuntu 12.10 Developer Summit about what Canonical does with OEMs and ODMs. He also tossed out some rather interesting numbers about the adoption of Ubuntu Linux. Namely, Ubuntu will ship on 5% of worldwide PC sales with a number of 18 million units annually."
What happens if I don't want to pay the Ubuntu tax (Score:5, Funny)
Can I get my money back if I install another better operating system such as Windows 7?
Re:Very Sad (Score:5, Funny)
yes but.. (Score:1, Funny)
Does it run Linux?
Re:This Gamemakerlessness is an eyesore! (Score:2, Funny)
"Gamemaker can do anything!"
fine go make me a full 3D space shooter MMORPG
It's About Time (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, it's about time this happened, considering 2003 was the year of Linux on the desktop.
Re:The best part... (Score:5, Funny)
what the fuck hardware are you running? or are you just stuck in the 90's
Yes, that's the canonical * response to any query from someone who can't get something to work under Linux. Good work, son.
* you see what I did there?